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Has AOL Lost Its Sex Drive?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the somewhere-between-the-cdrom-and-the-floppy dept.

TheViewFromTheGround writes "Why have the years since the merger with Time Warner been so hard on America Online? Michael Wolff, a consultant who advised Time Warner not to buy AOL in the early 90's, says that the the big problem is Time Warner's denial of AOL's core value: a monopoly on dirty chat. The argument says that AOL was successful because they had a critical mass of people and that it skillfully marketed talking dirty by appearing to be family friendly. Now, the old media bedfellow is pushing AOL to stop its pimping ways."

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  1. Re:What are they going to do? by ipxodi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mod parent up! That's funny.

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  2. Since you ask by IPFreely · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    This isn't a dupe! We're overdue for one... damn, you guys can't even get your screwups right.

    The article immediately before this one on IDE/ATAPI to SCSI Converters was a dupe from October.

    Happy now?

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  3. Re:Welcome to the internet... by ninewands · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I wish to HELL I had mod points ... somebody treat this post to a +1 Funny ...

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